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When I was dealing with the first years of my CS degree, I complained all the time that most of the exams were pure math: everybody kept saying that it would have been a good basis for the advanced topics, yadda yadda but I was’t so inclined to see that strategic value after days and…

maybe a bit stale, but still noteworthy: WS-Management flies toward standardization

Among the tons of things which happened during my blogout (from “blackout”: neologism indicating a timeframe without posts [:)]), there was the push for WS-Management standardization: see http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/sep05/09-15WSManagementSpecsPR.mspx. Reminder: WS-Management is NOT about management OF web services, it’s rather enabling the management of system and devices VIA web services. Some names of the proponents:…

OASIS forms a committee on Web Services transaction standards (WS-TX)

Yet another piece goes to its place.WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity will be the base for THE standard in web services coordination protocols, of which the transactions are the most notable example.There is a long list of companies behind this effort, all big names of the industry: with that kind of consensus, it’s reasonable to expect great results…

Mobile delight

You may or not may believe it, but I’m writing this post from my new JasJar!!! Everything works nicely (community server is GREAT), and the tiny keyboard is just amazingly effective… too bad I’m too busy now to play with it as it would deserve 🙂